Lenoir-Rhyne University's Noah McRea
has been selected as the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Men's
Swimmer of the Week, league officials announced earlier today.

McRea, a senior from Hickory, N.C., won three events this past
Saturday – the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.31), the 200-yard
backstroke (1:58.87) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:58.54) –
in the Bears' 173-86 victory over Catawba on Senior Day at home.

McRea was also part of the Bears' first-place 400-yard freestyle
relay team (3:18.02) in the Indians' meet and has qualified with a
"B" cut time to nationals in the 400-yard individual medley (a
school-record 3:57.84). McRea holds four other individual
school records as well: the 200-yard freestyle and the
50-yard, 100-yard and 200-yard backstroke.

The Lenoir-Rhyne University Men's Swimming Team is back in action
for the four-day 2018 Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships -
Wednesday, February 14, through Saturday, February 17 - which take
place in Charlotte, N.C., at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center.

Lenoir-Rhyne University's Alyx Koert
has been named the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Women's Swimmer of
the Week, respectively, league officials announced earlier
today.

Koert, a junior from Naples, Fla., won both the 500-yard freestyle
(5:30) and 1,000-yard freestyle (11:06) events and was part of
Lenoir-Rhyne's first-place 400-yard freestyle relay team (3:54.96)
last Saturday in a home dual meet on Senior Day against
Catawba.

Koert, who holds six school individual records (500-yard,
1,000-yard and 1,650-yard freestyle events and the 50-yard,
100-yard and 200-yard backstroke events), wins the league honor for
the second time this year.

Lenoir-Rhyne next competes in the 2018 Bluegrass Mountain
Conference Championships on Wednesday, February 14, through
Saturday, February 17, at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in
Charlotte, N.C.